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🔴📽️As a running video series for this #BlackHistoryMonth2021, @theipaper has joined forces with @AvrilWalksTalks as we explore the Black History you can find on the streets of London
📍Nelson Mandela, Parliament Square🗺️(1/4)
#ProudToBe #BHM
📍Nelson Mandela, Parliament Square🗺️(1/4)
#ProudToBe #BHM
@AvrilWalksTalks takes us to a plaque commemorating a black abolitionist who was the first black man to vote in Britain in 1774🗺️(2/4)
📍 Ignatius Sancho, King Charles Street
📍 Ignatius Sancho, King Charles Street
🔴Here you can see a plaque commemorating the Slavery Emancipation Act, passed in 1834
🔴The plaque also indicates there was once a monument here called the Buxton Memorial Fountain
Join us this #BHM with @AvrilWalksTalks🗺️(3/4)
📍 Parliament Square and Victoria Tower Gardens
🔴The plaque also indicates there was once a monument here called the Buxton Memorial Fountain
Join us this #BHM with @AvrilWalksTalks🗺️(3/4)
📍 Parliament Square and Victoria Tower Gardens
Its #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM
In the 1970s in Pittsburgh,
there was an important development relevant to both Black History & Paramedic History,
back then it was unusual for any care to be given en route to hospital, with most ambulances simply acting to transport patients,
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In the 1970s in Pittsburgh,
there was an important development relevant to both Black History & Paramedic History,
back then it was unusual for any care to be given en route to hospital, with most ambulances simply acting to transport patients,
1/8
But the Freedom House Ambulance was bucking this trend,
They were crewing their ambulances with Emergency Medical Technicians,
Trained in life saving interventions and techniques...
2/8
#BlackHistoryMonth2021
freedomhousedoc.com/main_page.html
They were crewing their ambulances with Emergency Medical Technicians,
Trained in life saving interventions and techniques...
2/8
#BlackHistoryMonth2021
freedomhousedoc.com/main_page.html
Not only that,
Freedom House was recruiting from Pittsburgh's inner-city neighbourhoods,
staffing all their vehicles with African-American EMTs, many from disadvantaged background, many lacking a High School Diploma...
3/8
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM2021
99percentinvisible.org/episode/freedo…
Freedom House was recruiting from Pittsburgh's inner-city neighbourhoods,
staffing all their vehicles with African-American EMTs, many from disadvantaged background, many lacking a High School Diploma...
3/8
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM2021
99percentinvisible.org/episode/freedo…
#PresidentsDay weekend: "Nowhere in all this information is there any mention of fact that more than one in four U.S. presidents were involved in human trafficking and slavery." -- Read ⬇️by @HowardU prof. Clarence Lusane, "Black History of White House" zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our…
“When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, don’t forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life.” - - @ClintSmithIII on
@pbsnewshour reads a "letter to past presidents." #PresidentsDay
@pbsnewshour reads a "letter to past presidents." #PresidentsDay
Clint Smith, in video above, has a new book (in June). "How the Word is Passed" -- an examination of how monuments & landmarks (incl. for U.S. presidents) represent — and misrepresent — central role of slavery in U.S. history and its legacy today. Read ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/materials/how-…
zinnedproject.org/materials/how-…
Happy #BHM! Each day for the month of February we will feature a black scientist and their noble contributions that changed the world. More here: livescience.com/amazing-black-… 
#1 James E. West (Born in 1931)
Inventor and acoustician.
Fields: Physics & Electrical Engineering
Work: West invented the foil electret microphone in 1962. Today, he is working on a device to detect pneumonia in infant lungs. More: livescience.com/amazing-black-…
Inventor and acoustician.
Fields: Physics & Electrical Engineering
Work: West invented the foil electret microphone in 1962. Today, he is working on a device to detect pneumonia in infant lungs. More: livescience.com/amazing-black-…
#2 Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)
Mathematician, astronomer, farmer, and surveyor
Banneker's Almanac: The six volumes published between 1792 and 1797 included information about astronomy, medicine, future eclipses.
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM
livescience.com/amazing-black-…
Mathematician, astronomer, farmer, and surveyor
Banneker's Almanac: The six volumes published between 1792 and 1797 included information about astronomy, medicine, future eclipses.
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM
livescience.com/amazing-black-…
